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"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me. – Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. – George Bernard Shaw
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. – Henry Kissinger
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Robert F. Goheen
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. – Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance. – Clark Kerr
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. – Richard Hofstadter
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. – John Anthony Ciardi
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. – Richard Hofstadter
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. – Paul Fussell
Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied. – Edmund S. Morgan
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. – Clive James
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. – Flannery O'Connor
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.' – Anthony Lake
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. – Dorothy Parker
If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Robert F. Goheen
in the university I am a wild man; in the wilds I am a scholar and a poet – J. Frank Dobie
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. – Doris Lessing
It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it. – Sen O'Faolin
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Many years ago Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: "Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are." – Halford E. Luccock
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. – Dwight D Eisenhower
The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. (at the University of Salford) – Prince Phillip

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